Radical Imagine-Nation

Peter McLaren and Suzanne SooHoo are both professors in the College of Educational Studies, Chapman University and are Co-Directors of the Paulo Freire Democratic Project at Chapman. They serve as Honorary Co-Directors of the Center for Critical Studies in Education, Northeast Normal University, China.

• Acknowledgments – Suzanne SooHoo: Introduction – Donaldo Macedo: Conscientization as an Antidote to Banking Education – Tom Wilson: Coming to Know Paulo – Tricia M. Kress: Critical Pedagogy, Leadership and Institutional Reform: Paulo Freire’s “Formative Time” at the Social Services of Industry – Keqi (David) Liu: A Clarification of Freire’s Radical Political Pedagogy – Leona M. English/Peter Mayo: Migration, Racism, and the Mediterranean—A Freirean Perspective – Robert Lake: Utopia as Praxis: Paulo Freire Twenty Years After His Passing – Peter McLaren: Dare We Create a New Socialist Order? A Challenge to Educators of America in the Coming Trump Era – Henry A. Giroux: Toward a Politics of Revolt and Disruption: Higher Education in Dangerous Times – Antonia Darder: Critical Leadership for Social Justice: Unveiling the Dirty Little Secret of Power and Privilege – Peter Hudis: The Alternative to Capitalism in Light of Today’s Environmental Crises – Michael E. Dantley: Critical Consciousness and Spirituality: Deconstructing the Colonizing Practices of U.S. Education Through the Lens of Paulo Freire and Critical Spirituality – Margaret Randall: I Cannot Speak for the Gun – Michael A. Peters/Tina Besley: The Refugee Crisis in Europe: Words Without Borders – Petar Jandrić: The Challenge of the Internationalist Critical Pedagogue – George J. Sefa Dei: Reframing Education Through Indigenous, Anti-Colonial, and Decolonial Prisms – Ravi Kumar: Educational Project of Social Justice: The Possibilities of Intervention Against the Pedagogical Hegemony of Capitalism – Peter O’Connor/Jean M. Allen/Simon Dennan: Where I’m Bound I Can’t Tell: Radical Changes Are Still Possible in Higher Education – Anna Renfors/Juha Suoranta: “Miracle on Ice”: Sociological Understanding of the Finnish Schooling Model – Bettina L. Love: “Trayvon Was Standing His Ground”: Utilizing Critical Hip Hop Pedagogy to Construct Counter-Narratives of Resistance and Love – Miguel Zavala: Toward a Raza Research Methodology: Social Science in the Service of Raza Communities – Theresa Montano/Maria Elena Cruz: L@s Malcriad@s: A Union Based, Chican@ Studies Model Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers of Chican@ Studies – Contributors – Index.

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